Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Assynt. You may be able to find further references to Assynt in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Assynt	a hamlet	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Assynt.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achmelvich	place with public school	Bartholomew
Ardvare	sea-loch with small harb	Bartholomew
Ardvare	a sea-loch, with a small harbour	Groome
Awe	loch	Bartholomew
Awe	a loch	Groome
Beanoch	loch	Bartholomew
Beanoch	a lake	Groome
Borrolan	a shallow, weedy loch	Groome
Cama Loch	a lake	Groome
Cam, or Cama	loch	Bartholomew
Clachmore	a loch	Groome
Clashnessie	a bay and a hamlet	Groome
Crokach	loch	Bartholomew
Crokach	a loch	Groome
Crona	two small flat islets	Groome
Crona	2 small flat islets	Bartholomew
Culag	rivulet	Bartholomew
Culag	a rivulet	Groome
Culkein	coastal hamlet with school	Bartholomew
Drumbag	coastal hamlet with inn	Bartholomew
Elphin	hamlet	Bartholomew
Glen Dorcha	glen	Bartholomew
Gorm Loch Mor	loch	Bartholomew
Inchnadamph	hamlet with inn	Bartholomew
Inverkirkaig	hamlet	Bartholomew
Inver, Loch	arm of the sea	Bartholomew
Klett (A'Chleit) Island	island	Bartholomew
Klett or A'Chleit	an islet	Groome
Knockan	hamlet	Bartholomew
Kylesku		Bartholomew
Ledbeg	place	Bartholomew
Loanan	river	Bartholomew
Lochan Fada	loch	Bartholomew
Lochassynt Lodge		Bartholomew
Lochinver	village with pier	Bartholomew
Loch-na-doire-Daraich	loch	Bartholomew
Loch-na-Gainimh	loch	Bartholomew
Nedd, Loch	sea-loch	Bartholomew
Oldney	island	Bartholomew
Quinag	mountain	Bartholomew
Rhu Stoer	rocky headland	Bartholomew
Soyea	a pastoral islet	Groome
Soyea Island	island	Bartholomew
Strathan	hamlet	Bartholomew
Suilven (or The Sugar Loaf)	mountain	Bartholomew
Urigill, Loch	a troutful lake	Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Assynt within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant	August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Lochinver	0	1
Glen Dhu	0	3
Clashnessie	0	2
Coigach	0	2
Scourie	0	2
Eddrachillis	0	3
Summer Isles	0	2
Handa	0	2
Ullapool	0	2
Achriesgill	0	2
Lochbroom	0	2
Kinlochbervie	0	2
Creich	0	2
Dundonnell	0	2
Mudale	0	2
Gruinard	0	2
Shin	0	4
Altnaharra	0	2
Laide	0	1
Eriboll	0	3